While the vast majority of vaccinated Americans blame the unvaccinated for rising cases of Covid-19 and the spread of new variants across the U.S., very few unvaccinated people feel they are to blame, according to a new Axios-Ipsos poll published Tuesday, highlighting the obstacles officials face as they try to revive the country’s sluggish vaccination program.
Nearly 80% of vaccinated Americans pin the rise in Covid-19 cases and the spread of new variants in the U.S. on the unvaccinated, according to the poll conducted July 30 – August 2 among 999 U.S. adults.
Vaccinated people also consider Donald Trump (36%), conservative media (33%), foreign travelers in the U.S. (30%) and Americans traveling abroad (25%) to be key contributors to the rise in cases, the poll found.
There is less consensus among unvaccinated people on who to blame and fewer than 10% of people in this group thought unvaccinated people were responsible for rising cases.
A significant number of people who hadn’t been vaccinated blamed foreign travelers in the U.S. (27%), the mainstream media (27%) and Americans traveling internationally (23%).
Far fewer unvaccinated people in this group blamed Donald Trump (11%) and the conservative media (7.5%) than their vaccinated counterparts, while they placed greater blame on President Joe Biden (21%), the CDC (19%) and national public health officials (18%).
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